I downloaded and installed the korn shell on my NT workstation over 6
months ago (and since removed it). I believe it is like the cygwin
ports. Free for personal use. I had the cygwin stuff installed as
well but far too much disk space just so I can do an ls -l vs dir. :).
If I wan a bash prompt I'll SSH into my Linux server. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Linux Rocks <gnulinux@rosecomputing.com>
To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [lug-nuts] Q&A table at SACPCUG General Meeting
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:45:17AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > I heard they were including the Korn shell in MS2k
>
> I heard this too -- almost a year ago.
>
> The Korn shell has been licensed to many commercial unixes. The guy
who
> wrote the korn shell has been making money for years selling ports of
> unix programs rewritten for windoze, including the korn shell. I think
> his company is MKS which stands for "Mortice Kern Systems".
>
> I checked the MKS WWW site:
>
> http://www.mks.com
>
> and found no mention of the Korn shell being included in Windoze2K.
>
>
>
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